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Breaking: As many as 20 dead in Connecticut school shooting; Update: 27?

Multiple fatalities have been reported at a shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., about 65 miles northeast of New York City. One law enforcement offcial said preliminary reports suggested there could be as many as 20 fatalities.

One state official said that an adult gunman was believed to be dead in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The gunman was in possession of at least two firearms, the official said.

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I am not responsible for another person’s deeds. We don’t create evil. Each one of us manufacturers are own destiny.

Capitalist Hog on December 14, 2012 at 1:22 PM

Good point except that while we are busy being free and not screwing with people the left is busy destroying our society. This sort of corruption comes from the contradictions created by their full frontal assault on our society.

BEIJING (Reuters) – A knife-wielding man slashed 22 children and an adult at an elementary school in central China on Friday, state media reported, the latest in a series of attacks on schoolchildren in the country.

There have been a series of attacks on schools and schoolchildren around China in recent years, some by people who have lost their jobs or felt left out of the country’s economic boom.

The rash of violence has prompted public calls for more measures to protect the young in a country where many couples only have one child.

In 2010, a man slashed 28 children, two teachers and a security guard in a kindergarten in eastern China.